Monday, October 23, 2006

Issues doing the Package Explorer for Pydev

Yeap, sometimes developing in Eclipse can become hard... especially when things don't go your way ;-)

The major problem for doing the Package Explorer in Pydev is that the CNF (Common Navigator Framework) that is provided in Eclipse has some deficiencies when it commes to providing the default actions that are provided to the default resources (IFile, IFolder) for objects that are not really implementations of those interfaces, but should be able to adapt to that interface.

The first stop in the way was that you have to provide a factory to the adapt protocol, whereas it is common in Eclipse to just make your object IAdaptable and have it working... after having that solved, it appears that the default actions only work on actual implementations, and not objects that adapt to that interface... maybe a sign that the CNF is still not completely ready (still has lots of rough edges)...

Anyway, I hope to have a first working version in the next release -- there are already some things that may deserve a release, such as some significant changes in the debugger and some niceties provided by Gergely Kis to save the project pythonpath in a file to be added to the repository and having a 'default interpreter' in the combo for selecting which interpreter to use for a run.